Thinking with photographs at the margins of Antarctic exploration

• Main Author: McCarthy, Kerry Bridgett
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: University of Canterbury. Gateway Antarctica 2011
• Subjects: Photography; Barthes; Benjamin; Burke; pentad; snapshot; Antarctica; heroic era; Ernest Joyce; Antarctic; Roland; Wylie; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5242; https://doi.org/10.26021/6471

This thesis seeks a portable and accessible model for centralising photographs in enquiry. I argue that photographs are potent sites of human value making but are typically relegated to illustrating word-based considerations, while the vast mass of ‘ordinary’ photographs are excluded from even this...